: pull-down
a drop-down menu
drop-down noun
or dropdown
plural drop-downs or dropdowns
… a simpler email experience free of buttons, drop-downs, toggles, … and heavy interfaces … Ellis Hamburger

Examples of drop-down in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Then Acosta clicks a drop-down menu, and selects Jigsaw’s reasoning classifier. Billy Perrigo, TIME, 15 Apr. 2024 Open up Gemini in your browser, click on Activity, and select the Turn Off drop-down menu. Matt Burgess, WIRED, 10 Apr. 2024 Explore the full lineup by selecting the Latinidad Stage in the location drop-down. Cerys Davies, Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2024 Entertainment areas include a large outdoor cinema on the bridge deck and a Nemo cinema on the lower deck with a 150-inch drop-down TV and underwater viewing lounge. Bill Springer, Forbes, 29 Mar. 2024 Select a reason for deactivating your account from the drop-down menu. The Arizona Republic, 18 Mar. 2024 Carpenter wore a sparkling black Tory Burch gown with elegant drop-down earrings. Ingrid Vasquez, Peoplemag, 13 Mar. 2024 Verify you’re the legal owner by selecting your name from the drop-down list. ◾ Click the profile icon and select Your Home from the menu option. Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 1 Mar. 2024 For movie nights, the usual big-screen TV was swapped for a more discreet projector and drop-down screen. Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 29 Feb. 2024

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Word History

First Known Use

1984, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of drop-down was in 1984

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“Drop-down.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/drop-down. Accessed 24 Apr. 2024.

Kids Definition

drop-down

adjective
-ˌdau̇n
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